Zayn got his fans amped for the new album in a revealing interview with The Fader, that “Once [the fans] hear it, I feel like they will understand me a little bit more, and they’ll understand why I did what I did, and why I left the band, and why I had to write this s**t down,” he added. “Because for five—not even for five years, for ten years, this album has been in my brain, and it’s just been there, sat with me, needing to be out.”